The City of Temecula’s Temecula Valley Entrepreneurs Exchange (TVE2) is pleased to announce the following events scheduled for July 2015. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar http://tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar/.

Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange Resource Center offers the following events in May. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar/.

Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange Resource Center offers the following events in April. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar tve2.org/newsand-events/calendar.

Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange Resource Center offers the following events in March. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar/.

Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange Resource Center offers the following events in February. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar http://tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar/.

Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange Resource Center offers the following events in January. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar http://tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar/.

Seven local startups joined the ranks of 14 past San Diego Plug and Play pitch winners Tuesday, each earning $25,000, three months of mentoring and coaching at Plug and Play’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, and a spot at the incubator’s expo.

Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange Resource Center offers the following events in November. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar http://tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar/.

Beaming, one of the flourishing tech startup companies at the Temecula Valley Entrepreneurs Exchange (TVE2), has been selected by the Plug and Play Tech Center, a high-profile accelerator in Silicon Valley, to receive $25,000 and attend their Startup Camp

For many pet owners, our furry friend is a part of the family. What would you do if your beloved pet were to wander off and unable to find their way home? Many of us would search high and low, post flyers, drive aimlessly around the neighborhood and check at local rescue shelters. Those days are now over as technology allows us to immediately locate our pet via our mobile phone.

San Diego fitness startup Fitn Inc., a company whose mission is to bring a diverse array of boutique fitness studios into one curated, network of specialized fitness studios, launched last week and company expectations were blown away.

Big data has become a buzzword, with increasing relativity as the use of the cloud allows for more and varied applications of it. Who is using this data, for what, and why, are questions that can elicit confusion for those unfamiliar with the concept.

When it comes to your company’s technology infrastructure you want to build it with top of the line, secure solutions. Bird Rock Systems is a local technology solutions provider founded in 2003 that does just that!

The city of Temecula’s Temecula Valley Entrepreneur’s Exchange (TVE2) is pleased to announce the following events scheduled for March 2014. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar http://tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar/.

The city of Temecula's Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange (TVE2) is pleased to announce the following events scheduled for February 2014. Additional event information and registration details can be found at the TVE2 website events calendar http://tve2.org/news-and-events/calendar.

As an amateur astronomer, I really enjoy any of the technology innovations that telescope manufacturers accomplish in making the hobby convenient, portable and easy to use. The Celestron Nextstar 8SE accomplishes that goal for me.

STANFORD -- Governments and businesses spend $1 trillion a year for global cybersecurity, but unlike wartime casualties or oil spills, there's no clear idea what the total losses are because few will admit they've been compromised. Cybersecurity leaders from more than 40 countries are gathering at Stanford University this week to consider tackling that information gap by creating a single, trusted entity that would keep track of how much hackers steal.

It's no secret to local "Temeculans" who live and work here that this is the place to be. Temecula, branded as Southern California Wine Country, has award winning schools, higher educational opportunities, vast array of parks and trails, diverse shopping and dining options and beautiful residential communities. Temecula remains a premier city within Southwest Riverside County. Temecula strives to be a well-rounded community and setting the stage for an excellent quality of life is our business! You want it, Temecula has it!

It seems that businesses are still not quite getting the importance of social customer service. Even a company like British Airways, which prides itself on its customer experience laurels, seems to have overlooked this seemingly obvious aspect of the customer-brand relationship.

Back in April 2012, Microsoft announced that support for Windows XP and Office 2003 would end on April 8, 2014. While some companies immediately began planning upgrade programs to modernize their computers, others greeted the news with ambivalence -- or missed it altogether.

How often have we thought about the amount of our personal information an attorney retains in their files? Whether the attorney is a criminal defense lawyer, an estate planner, a personal injury attorney, or a law firm for corporations, they all have one thing in common: They have a ton of information on clients, and in today's digital world, you can bet it's stored on some sort of computing device.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. was among 17 winners of a $6 billion U.S. contract that will create a shopping hub for government agencies seeking to shield their computer networks from hackers.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The heads of the nation's three top intelligence agencies said Thursday they strive to protect Americans' privacy in an evolving era of cybersecurity threats, electronic surveillance and concerns about government data-monitoring.

Alcatel-Lucent and Qualcomm Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM), announced Monday a plan to collaborate to develop small cell base stations that enhance 3G, 4G and WiFi networks to improve wireless connectivity in residential and enterprise environments.

In an effort to support the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, Temecula Valley Entrepreneur’s Exchange, in partnership with Startup Circle, hosted a collaborative networking event on June 26th. At the TVE2 technology incubator event, techies and innovative entrepreneurial minds gathered to meet and exchange ideas.

SINGAPORE (AP) -- After years of quiet and largely unsuccessful diplomacy, the U.S. has brought its persistent computer-hacking problems with China into the open, delivering a steady drumbeat of reports accusing Beijing's government and military of computer-based attacks against America.

Promising tech startups from around the county — and around the world — are swinging through Mintz Levin’s doors in San Diego this week to have a once-in-a-lifetime meeting with representatives of South Korean wireless giant SK Telecom.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will be looking for signs from China's leader at their upcoming meeting that Beijing is ready to address its reported high-tech spying, which the White House sees as a top threat to the U.S. economy and national security.

Jason Clark, chief security and strategy officer for San Diego-based Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), has been named a 2012 Top Security Executive by ExecRank, ranking eighth out of 150 security executives honored.

One of the biggest questions facing decision-makers today is whether to continue investing in IT infrastructure or start migrating to cloud services. The following are 10 key factors that, in addition to capital expenditure, should be considered by small business leaders when making a cloud ROI calculation.

Over the past two decades, the city of Temecula has evolved into an innovative, dynamic city and a regional economic center for Southwest Riverside County, all while retaining its small-town feeling and character.

In a deal valued at close to $1 billion, San Diego's Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), a leader in warding off cyber attacks and data theft, has agreed to be sold to Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that invests in software, data and other tech businesses.

A star-studded lineup of health professionals will be in San Diego this month, ranging from the co-founder of WebMD to the man that holds the keys to the Food and Drug Administration's protected regulatory gates.

BEIJING (AP) -- Signs are growing that the sustained surge in cyberattacks emanating from China is imperiling its relations with the U.S., lending urgency to fledgling efforts by both governments to engage on the issue.

Syntricity, a San Diego-based developer of software used by the semiconductor industry, announced Monday the release of a new product to analyze engineering data, push products into production, and manage final test manufacturing yields.

The Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange, also known as TVE2, is located in Temecula's old city hall building at 43200 Business Park Drive. In an effort to be proactive and spark job creation and economic vitality, the City Council repurposed the city-owned building for use as a business incubator and resource center. Our purpose is to support the growth of innovation and entrepreneurs -- as we know they are a key driver of economic growth for the region.

GenomeDx Biosciences announced Friday the launch of a mobile device application designed specifically for the iPad that provides a three-dimensional model of the prostate, bladder and surrounding organs for use by physicians.

Anametrix, the first cloud-based, real-time marketing analytics platform, said analytics and social business luminaries Jay Baer, Huw Griffiths and Jim Sterne have joined Eric Otterson on the Anametrix advisory board.As San Diego-based Anametrix continues to establish itself among Global 2000 B2C retailers, media companies and digital agencies, the advisory board will offer strategic insight and guidance.

San Diego-based TriTech Software Systems announced a strategic partnership with Nlets as its hosting services provider for TriTech.com IQ, the cloud-based version of its Inform IQ public safety intelligence solution.

Dr. Alexander Garza, former assistant secretary for health affairs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been named as the medical director and homeland security adviser for Encinitas-based FirstWatch, a technology company dedicated to helping 911, EMS, fire, police, public health, and emergency management by harnessing the power of their data.

What better time to start a new business or expand an existing business than in the spring! With the changing seasons come new opportunities, making it a prime time to take advantage of all the workshops, seminars, and networking events the Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange (TVE2) has to offer.

Banks and financial institution services haven't really changed much at all in the last century. They still help you save your money, give car loans or mortgages, help you send your kids to college, and help you prepare for retirement. How they accomplish this has changed dramatically, and continues to change as technology advances.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Intelligence Committee is finalizing legislation that would give the federal government an unprecedented role in helping banks, manufacturers and other businesses protect against cyberattacks.

BEIJING (AP) -- Hacking that originates inside China is undermining its relationship with the United States and harms Beijing's long-term interests, a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday, in the latest high-level public expression of concern over a problem that has prompted threats of commercial retaliation from Washington.

The House Intelligence Committee will add privacy safeguards to a cybersecurity proposal in an effort to win support of President Barack Obama and other lawmakers, the panel’s top Republican and Democrat said.

Now that it is several months since the launch of Windows 2012, IT professionals are starting to come to terms with all of the new features that this great new operating system has to offer. Many of these features are refinements of existing technologies, offering extra functionality and improved performance over systems running Windows 2008. One such feature is the Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI, which builds on previous implementations of Terminal Services and virtualization to give great results.

LifeApps Digital Media Inc. (OTC: LFAP), a San Diego-based designer of applications and social networks for sports, health, fitness and entertainment enthusiasts, has announced the acquisition of Today's New Deal, a daily deal website and email marketing newsletter service.

San Diego-based AIS (American Internet Services), a provider of data center and cloud service solutions, reports Fortress Credit Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, has provided the company a $43.5 million senior secured credit facility. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

San Diego-based PatientSafe Solutions, a provider of point-of-care mobile solutions, reports New York-Presbyterian Hospital has selected the company’s platform, PatientTouch, for use in its medical center.

A new analysis by the San Diego-based Gary and Mary West Health Institute reports medical device interoperability -- the ability for devices and health care systems to communicate with one another -- could save more than $30 billion a year and improve patient care.

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. advisory panel failed to reach consensus on recommendations to telecommunications companies and Internet providers on how to bolster their computer systems against cyber attack.

Qualcomm Inc., through its Wireless Reach initiative, and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), announced the Designing Education Networks (DEN) initiative at the 2013 CoSN Conference in San Diego.

Year 2013 is well under way and exciting new things have been happening at the Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange. TVE2 is the City of Temecula's Business Incubator and Regional Resource Center. The goal of TVE2 is to foster business growth and economic vitality for entrepreneurs and innovative early stage companies, by providing access to technology and high quality resources, and leveraging a strong network of community partners.

You just downloaded the latest security software on your PC. So, now you're safe from hackers, right? It used to be that you could go to Staples, Office Max, or Best Buy and purchase the latest and greatest security software and you were protected. Today, if you believe that, you've being lulled into a false sense of security.

Over the past several years, websharing has evolved into one of the main forms of communication among top businesspeople because it enables businesses to collaborate in real-time through webinars, teleconferences and online presentations.

Qualcomm Life Inc. is joining forces with WebMD, an online source of health information, to enable millions of consumers to access and manage wireless health data from an array of fitness, wellness and medical devices.

VOIS Inc. (OTCQB: VOIS) entered into a letter of intent with San Diego’s Mind Technologies Inc. to purchase 100 percent of its assets. The company has agreed to the acquisition in order to secure ownership of all BCI/ thought-controlled technology developed and being developed by the company.

WASHINGTON -- When Kevin Mandia, a retired military cybercrime investigator, decided to expose China as a primary threat to U.S. computer networks, he didn't have to consult with American diplomats in Beijing or declassify tactics to safely reveal government secrets.

For years both large and small corporations have been migrating their in-house servers to data centers that specialize in colocation services. Colocation facilities provide the space, power, cooling and security the servers require.

BEIJING (AP) -- Cyberattacks that stole massive amounts of information from military contractors, energy companies and other key industries in the U.S. and elsewhere have been traced to the doorstep of a Chinese military unit, a U.S. security firm alleged Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Declaring that America is losing an aggressive cyber-espionage campaign waged from China, administration officials and lawmakers on Wednesday agreed to push legislation that would make it easier for the government and industry to share information about who is getting hacked and what to do about it.

Remember Maxwell Smart walking down the corridor as the doors automatically opened and closed? Even Mel Brooks, the show's creator and a comic genius, understood the need for physical security, a major part of corporate information technology protection.

Cyber attacks have increased by nearly 600 percent over the past year, according to a report released Wednesday by Websense Security Labs, a research team of San Diego’s Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), which produces security software for email and mobile communications.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House cybersecurity executive order, to be unveiled Wednesday by President Barack Obama's top security officials, will be the most comprehensive plan yet for confronting electronic attacks on America's computer networks, or at least a good-faith effort amid an alarming tide in industrial espionage in the past year that experts blame mostly on China.

Since the computerized Celestron CompuStar appeared in 1985, Celestron has been known for both its technological prowess and ease of use. The company continues this tradition with the introduction of the SkyProdigy 6, which a colleague -- Daily Transcript reporter Thor Biberman -- and I tested out on a 16-degree evening in the Anza Borrego desert.

Data management company Overland Storage (Nasdaq: OVRL) announce Monday that it has been granted a new patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering its clustered file system technology related to large-scale computer file storage.

With the future of business technology headed to the cloud, Voice Smart Networks, an industry leader in unified communications, is helping their customers make this transition. The company is providing its customers with Virtual Hosted Office systems designed to help small to mid-sized businesses take advantage of the latest in cloud-based technologies.

San Diego’s Websense Inc. (Nasdaq: WBSN), which produces software and security systems to defend against cyber attacks, reported record income of $122 million for the fourth quarter, rising 5 percent over last year.

In an effort to serve its East Coast client base, Encinitas-based Infinitely Virtual, a provider of virtual server cloud computing services, has announced the phased move of its backup data center from San Diego to the Boston area.

HIPAA. We've all heard the term. Every time we go to the doctor's office, there seems to be another form to fill out that is a "HIPAA requirement." To most of us, most of the time, HIPAA is just a pain in the butt. Is there any good reason for all this regulation? You bet there is.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A computer virus that spread to more than a million computers worldwide, including some at NASA, and produced at least $50 million in illegal profits or losses to victims should be a “wake-up call” for banks and consumers unaware of the threat posed by Internet criminals, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Del Mar-based Tealium announced Wednesday the launch of Tealium DataCloud, an add-on service in its tag management offerings that enables digital marketers to tap into an actionable source of all of their digital data.

This week I've asked Marc Parrish, a friend who has extensive experience managing big data for the high-tech industry, to provide his views for this column, based on a previous article he wrote for The Atlantic online.

Big box retailers around the United States are making room on their shelves to sell the latest and greatest gadgets revealed at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past week. But buyers be warned: It will cost you.

For entrepreneurs with a fresh idea, the City of Temecula's Temecula Valley Entrepreneur's Exchange (TVE2) provides an excellent opportunity for innovative start-ups and entrepreneurs to network, collaborate, and grow their business. The TVE2 incubator is currently home to two technology focused start-ups, NZN Labs Inc. and Anywhere Science Inc.

From a home theater experience on a tablet to the growing market for "phablets," leading technology companies discussed the next big trends at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week.

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is jam-packed with the latest gadgets for youthful techies, but one San Diego-based company is showing off its latest digital product for an unlikely user: the elderly.

In true flashy Vegas fashion, Qualcomm Inc. CEO Paul Jacobs showed off his company's latest technology at the Consumer Electronics Show with the help of a string of entertainers, including Maroon 5, a “Star Trek” star, a NASCAR champion and Big Bird from "Sesame Street."

The cutting edge of scientific research is often accomplished with surprisingly little cutting edge technology. In many cases, the equipment used to make discoveries is quite old, having been operating reliably for many years. Thus many scientists, comfortable with technological status quo, can easily miss small, affordable changes in technology that have the possibility to dramatically increase productivity.

San Diego-based ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), a provider of cloud-based services to automate enterprise IT operations, said it will release financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2012, following the close of the markets on Jan. 30.

The world of unified communications is centered on the idea of leveraging powerful technologies and applications to boost productivity. When individual employees have superior tools, they are able to do more with less and increase bottom-line profitability.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, some who lost their homes or businesses have turned to crowd-funding websites to elicit a faster and more direct response than they could expect from the government or traditional charities.

Hurricane Sandy highlighted the fragility of many pieces of modern infrastructure. In addition to the loss of human life and physical property, lost data has impacted the operations of many organizations on the East Coast.

EdgeWave Inc., a San Diego developer and marketer of on-demand secure content management solutions to the mid-enterprise markets, announced Tuesday the launch of EdgeWave Mobile Security, a cloud-based Web and social media security option for mobile devices.

Organovo Holdings Inc., a designer and manufacturer of three-dimensional human tissues for medical research, is working with researchers at Autodesk Inc. to create the first 3D design software for bioprinting, the company announced.

More than a dozen locally based companies appeared on Deloitte's 2012 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America.

An administrative law judge will reconsider San Diego-based Overland Storage's (Nasdaq: OVRL) patent infringement claims against Germany-based BDT-Solutions GmbH, following a ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission Wednesday.

The cutting edge of scientific research is often accomplished with surprisingly little cutting edge technology. In many cases, the equipment used to make discoveries is quite old, having been operating reliably for many years. Thus many scientists, comfortable with technological status quo, can easily miss small, affordable changes in technology that have the possibility to dramatically increase productivity.

Allowing open Internet access to any and all technology can reduce productivity, expose the network to security threats, jam up bandwidth, deteriorate the quality of service in IP based applications and slow down critical programs that are running the business.

Today's business owners have a seemingly endless supply of technology solutions at their fingertips. However, without the proper support and assistance in implementing these tools, technology becomes useless.

Hurricane Sandy taught us one thing about disaster planning: recovery is not always possible. Wreaking power outages, cell phone interruption, physical damage, spoilage and immobility, the hurricane deluged the East Coast with monetary losses estimated at $10 to $20 billion. In the aftermath, Sandy shut many small business doors forever. Those lacking the infrastructure to support a Disaster Recovery Plan did not survive the hurricane.

San Diego-based Franklin Wireless Corp. (OTCBB: FKWL) announced it ranked number 232 on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America.

San Diego-based ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE: NOW), a provider of cloud-based services to automate enterprise IT operations, announced the pricing of its follow-on public offering of 14 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $28 per share.

Allowing access to Facebook and Twitter in the workplace risks brand damage, cyberharassment, productivity loss and security threats, but EdgeWave Inc. lets companies tap into the power of social media while mitigating those risks.

San Diego-based e.Digital Corp. (OTCQB: EDIG) announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted the company four U.S. patents. The company also received Issue Notifications from the USPTO for two additional U.S. patents.

The concept of the technological “cloud,” a term that is at once confusing and ubiquitous, has been around for years, but industry experts say the extent of its reach has only just begun to be tapped. What used to be done with software and the nearly extinct floppy disk now happens in a virtual space from the consumer’s perspective, and a changing one from the business side.

In the wake of the Superstorm Sandy and the unbelievable destruction it left behind, we were all reminded again of the importance of a well-planned Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategy every business must have.

Today's work force is comprised of people from at least three generations who have witnessed the rapid evolution of technology parallel to the evolution of flight. Just as the Wright brothers were laughed out of the hangar from which the airplane was born, our collective experience of the changes in the information technology field and what they mean to us has run the trajectory from skepticism to acceptance to absolute reliance. In 2012, the rise of cyber attacks took us from absolute reliance on our technical domains back to skepticism on how much risk we can afford to take.

ViaWest, one of the largest privately held data center, cloud computing and managed services providers in North America, has been selected by The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), to provide colocation services.

There's more to cybersecurity than virus protection and anti-spyware. From securing mobile devices to guarding against hacking, here are some common vulnerabilities small businesses need to watch out for.

The San Diego Technology Symposium on Nov. 8 is a perfect blend of technology exhibition, informative educational seminars, and premium industry networking. The unbelievable difference with this event is that it is 100 percent free to attend.

Businesses have two options today when it comes to their information technology (IT) infrastructure: do it in-house or pay for it as a fixed-price monthly service in the cloud in a state-of-the-art data center.

Roundtables

Biotech, mobile, tourism, craft beer — San Diego is at the forefront of these industries and its business community is defined by them, but who says there isn’t room for one more? Thanks to a wide-reaching public-private partnership, the Cyber Center of Excellence opened March 20 with the goal of adding cybersecurity to the list of homegrown success stories.

Jennifer Tucker Klein, assistant vice chancellor of institutional research and planning at Brandman University, is a whiz at data mining and predictive analytics. But with that knowledge — that Web scrapers and robots are out there, taking note of a person’s online persona — comes a bit of paranoia.

Individual plants will one day have their own microprocessor to transmit a signal, saying they need water and fertilizer. A group of forward-thinking technology leaders discussed what the future looks like in the wireless sector at a recent roundtable at The Daily Transcript sponsored by CohnReznick.

Profiles

Seven months to the day after Connect CEO Duane Roth died from injuries sustained in a biking accident, Greg McKee took on the role as the organization’s fourth chief executive. Roth left big shoes to fill, but McKee said he plans to chart his own course.